She was his friend, his carer, his strength, his love - his wife. The eternal vows they exchanged at the beginning of a sometimes rocky year marriage were never so meaningful as when the couple glimpsed another sort of eternity hurtling towards them. In places, this memoir becomes a meditation on that meaning. But - far more important than that - it is a revealing story of what it is like to be a carer.

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